Pause loop until signal is emitted?

HennsWoerst

Hello!

I would like to achieve the following (it's very simplified):

@QStringList list;

MethodA(){

while(elementsInList){

    MethodB(nextElement);
    waitUntilMethodBIsFinished;
    readGlobalVariable;
    proceedWithLoop;
}

}

MethodB(nextElement){

doBusinessWithElement;
setGlobalVariableWithResultOfBusiness;
emit signal(finished)

}
@

I read that this could maybe be realized with a QEventLoop (?) but it is not recommended due to stability issues? What would you recommend?

Thank you!

SGaist

Hi and welcome to devnet,

Your simplified example does already what you want since MethodB will only return when it ended.

You should maybe show something (even if a bit more complex) that shows what you currently want to realize

NicuPopescu

check QThread and QWaitCondition

QThread has a local event loop, started by exec() but it is for cases when you need to receive events within thread ... in most cases you need to run a "non event" loop (while,forever etc.) with conditions

HennsWoerst

Thank you for your answers! I suppose you're right, I should have been more specific... MethodB is a slot waiting for a webframe to load

@
page.mainFrame()->load(QUrl(url + nextString));
QWebFrame *frame = page.mainFrame();
connect(frame, SIGNAL(loadFinished(bool)),this, SLOT(MethodB(bool)));
@

while this works fine with only one string it fails in the loop because the load method gets called far too frequently, so I thought of stopping the loop until the frame retrieves the data from the web, performs it's business with it and then emits a finished signal so that the loop can pass the next string...

SGaist

What are you trying to achieve exactly ?